Week 13

this is the last time i will be blogging to you blogging world. its sad the SAD is finished but still have POD next semester :-D. Well this week we went through what to expect on the exam and POD gave some insight into jobs for the future. All i can say POD is that your an insperation to us all. you have made me so motivated to turning up to lectures, funny kind man, easy going and mate thank you for this semester, i can not thank you enough. I have learnt so much more then just the course which im very greatfull and you have opened my eyes to what i should be doing now. oh well, thanks for the semester everyone and thanks for reading System Anaylsis and design for Luke Pocock. Thanks

week 12

quick week this week. spoke about more interfaces but mostly system interfaces. spoke about creating databases, xml stnadards which are becoming more and more common, EDI systems such as creating inputs for another system to convert to your system, interfaces for outputs, integrity controls of the database, sercuirty controls. the reality of objects for databases is really non exestant because oracal is relational and not object oriented. thats it for this week because all we did in the tut is worked on assignments in which i got feedback for assignment1 which i can see where i went wrong and for stupid reasons. oh well, till next week

Week 11

Ok well there really is not much to tell this week, the lecture was about graphical user interfaces. well the basics are that they were designed because it made it easier for users to interact with the pc. also the importance of designing a good interface is the way the clients look at the system. if the interface is not looking the way they want, they will hate it no matter how good the program is. thats the main essense besides some story board diagramming.

tut was kinda of boring, the sites i have visited before in the past and the diagraming was pritty self explanitry. still a week behind but will be done. this is done on time which is amazing but yeah, its done

Week 10

Well week 9 is coming but week 10 will do for now. So much has been happening with assignments, training at work because i just got a promotion and alot of hassels with girlfriends work giving her shit so im finding it difficault to keep up with it all. But anyway, im doing it now.

Lecture not too bad. as pod said, every 20 mins, i had to keep telling myself keep listening and pay attention, but yeah did well. basically spoke about 2 main types of diagrams, class diagram and interaction diagrams which are sequence and collaberation diagrams. within class diagrams we talked about 3 different layers. also there are different symbols and notations for the classes. also spoke of coupling and Cohesion

Coupling – qualitative measure of how closely classes in a design class diagram are linked

Cohesion – qualitative measure of consistency of functions within a single class

also talked of subsystem packages.


tutorial went through a couple of exercises with sequence diagrams, class and subsytem packages diagrams about a dentist. its good to go through it in practice and i have to agree with you pod, not too hard to do.